The journal Nidān: International Journal for Indian Studies is now hosted by HASP. All back issues are available for free. The issue 8,1 (2023) is scheduled for summer.

We are pleased to inform you that the proceedings of the 12th Annual Conference of the AK Südasien have been published. The conference took place on 21/22 January 2022 in Bonn/ online. The proceedings are  available free of charge in open access on our website.

In the early modern period, the Sants emerged in North India as devotees of a formless interior god. The volume introduces seven Sant authors living in Rajasthan in the period from the first half of the sixteenth to the eighties of the seventeenth century. It explores their complex cultural background, their literary conventions, and their sectarian network, and presents samples of their poetry in the original Hindi with English translations.

Sant poetry has been transmitted in oral and written form. It owes its continuing vitality largely to congregational and private performance. This fact has been illustrated by a number of audio and video samples included in the HTML version.

In the series Puṣpikā – Tracing Ancient India through Texts and Traditions: Contributions to Current Research in Indology, the proceedings of the International Indology Graduate Research Symposium (IIGRS) are published. Puṣpikā is a peer-reviewed series that provides early-career scholars with a platform to share the results of their research on pre-modern South Asian cultures.

This is the 6th volume in the series, containing thirteen articles based on the talks presented at the 12th IIGRS online and in Vienna, Austria on 22–24 July 2021.

ASIEN: The German Journal on Contemporary Asia is published by the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Asienkunde (DGA) in Hamburg. In cooperation with the DGA, all older volumes already published have been made available in Open Access. They can be downloaded from the journal website of Heidelberg Asian Studies Publishing (HASP).

The current issue is freely available online after an embargo period of one year; some articles are also available immediately after publication without a time limit. A print edition is also available.

For many centuries, Hindu temples and shrines have been of great importance to South Indian religious, social and political life. Aside from being places of worship, they are also pilgrimage destinations, centres of learning, political hotspots, and foci of economic activities. In these tem­ples, not only the human and the divine interact, but they are also meeting places of different members of the communities, be they local or coming from afar. The current volume pays close attention to the con­nections between individual Hindu temples and the affiliated communities, be it within a particular place or on a trans-local level.